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Wow-Wow Sauce
Wow-Wow Sauce is a sauce, apparently created by Dr. William Kitchiner in the early 19th century. It contains port, wine vinegar, pickled cucumbers or Pickled Walnuts, English mustard and mushroom ketchup in a base of beef stock, flour and butter.
Ingredients
- butter
- flour1 tbsp
- beef stock1 cup
- vinegar1 tbsp
- mushroom ketchup and/or port wine1 tbsp
- mustard, prepared1 tbsp
- parsley, finely chopped
- pickled cucumber or walnut, chopped2–3
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 3 steps
Put a piece of butter as big as an egg into a saucepan. When it is melted, stir in the flour and beef broth.
Add vinegar, mushroom ketchup, and mustard. Simmer together until it is as thick as you wish.
Add the parsley and pickles, and warm them through.
Region evidence: no stated origin (basic dish)